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A typical suburban development in the United States, located in Chandler, Arizona An urban development in Palma, Mallorca. Urban sprawl (also known as suburban sprawl or urban encroachment [1]) is defined as "the spreading of urban developments (such as houses, dense multi–family apartments, office buildings and shopping centers) on undeveloped land near a more or less densely populated city".
In the United States, the combination of demographic and economic features created as a result of suburbanization has increased the risk of drug abuse in suburban communities. Heroin in suburban communities has increased in incidence as new heroin users in the United States are predominantly white suburban men and women in their early twenties ...
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States [1] is a book written by historian Kenneth T. Jackson and published in 1985. Extensively researched and referenced, the book takes into account factors that promoted the suburbanization of the United States, such as the availability of cheap land, construction methods, and transportation, as well as federal subsidies for highways and ...
The Midwestern and Western United States became urban majority in the 1910s, while the Southern United States only became urban-majority after World War II, in the 1950s. [2] The Western U.S. is the most urbanized part of the country today, followed closely by the Northeastern United States.
[1] [2] The United States has also had a long history of hostility to the city, as characterized for example by Thomas Jefferson's agrarianism and the Populist movement of the 1890s. [3] Mary Sies (2003) argues: At the start of the twenty-first century, North American urban history is flourishing.
Market activity will vary across the US Nationally, many economists call for home prices to rise between 2% and 4% next year, around historical averages. But the strength of the housing market is ...
To qualify as an exurb in the Finding Exurbia report, a census tract must meet three criteria: . Economic connection to a large metropolis. Low housing density: bottom third of census tracts with regard to housing density.
CoreLogic expects further home price growth, forecasting housing values will increase 4.6% year-over-year by March of next year, recovering another $12,600 in equity for the average homeowner.